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A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

George MacDonald

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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.
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Why should my love be powerless to help another?
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The holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.
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I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.
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But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires.
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One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
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Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action
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In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality what men call death is but a shadow.
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No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.
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God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.
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To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
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Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.
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But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.
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We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
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As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
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Love makes everything lovely hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.
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The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.
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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over
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To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.
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In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
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